2018-05-20 21:05 GMT+02:00 Gintautas Grigelionis <g.grigelio...@gmail.com>:
> 2018-05-18 16:11 GMT+02:00 Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com>: > >> 2) There is clearly no consensus here on the merits / desirability of >> these bulk changes. Gintas, I understand your desire to move things >> along, and you clearly have an opinion about it, but IMHO you really >> need to stop doing any more bulk changes as long as there is no >> consensus. >> > > This time, I tried to start a discussion first, and I got no response. > There were attempts to modernize the codebase about a year ago. AFAICS > there was no discussion then. > What was that saying: "don't vote, don't complain"? I'd like some > discussion, that's all. > > I hear that the consensus is "new stuff is for new code, or at least > whenever one happens to change old code fixing the bugs". > I'm not quite sure whether that's a good idea, we should at least try to > achieve some consistency > -- and not necessarily sticking to the bottom line. > Or maybe I'm too old school seeing major version changes as necessitating > a porting effort ;-) > Just another .02€ -- if we agree on porting guidelines, there's no need to squabble about "personal preferences". At the moment, the only "global" issues I see are "informally deprecated" JRE APIs (Vector, Hashtable, Stack,...) and the use of streams/lambdas. Gintas
